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Where everybody knows your name

Bill Upton

Giving wings to Canada’s aviation stories

Manel Zeghal

Finding a way to make a difference

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Three cheers for Ingenium’s volunteers

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Putting the “slam” into science

Minerva Prime

Museum visitors take an inter-planetary adventure with virtual reality technology

Mountmakers

Behind the Scenes: Meet the mountmakers at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

Double Experience

Nerd-rock band sings about science in support of museum learning programs

Black History Month

Honouring Black Canadians in science and technology

Failure and Culture Panel

New book celebrates the upside of failure

The 1918 influenza

Scientists seek super-shot for flu 100 years after pandemic

Austin Douglas

A passion strong enough to last a lifetime

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Postcard of the Banff Springs Hotel, featuring the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

The Canadian Railway Hotels

Kristy von Moos

This text has been adapted from the Picturing the Past website, developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2006. In addition to building the rail system across the country, Canada’s two national railway companies (Canadian National Railways and the Canadian Pacific Railway) built a string of grand hotels in the major cities and resort areas of the nation.

The Mystery Ship sandwich shop / restaurant near the airfield at Bradenton, Florida. Manatee County Public Library System, M01-04287-A

Aviation & Space

The costliest sandwich shop on planet Earth, Part 3

Rénald Fortier

The Felixstowe F-5L which became the winged sandwich stand in the photo above apparently left Miami, Florida, in late January 1931. Its crew landed on Sarasota Bay on the following day and cast anchor near the municipal pier. The F-5L had left Cape May, New Jersey, a few weeks before, with another flying boat operated by Atlantic Coast Airways Corporation of Delaware. Its crew had flown to the Magic City, as Miami was / is called, in order to attend the third All American Air Races held in

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The Element is a video series that highlights the most recent science news. It is hosted by Ingenium's Science Advisors, Jesse Rogerson of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

Seventy-six women from around the world were participants on the inaugural Homeward Bound Women In Science Leadership Expedition to Antarctica.

Social Science & Culture

Homeward Bound: Women in Science and Leadership in Antarctica

Dr. Shelley Ball

Guest Writer, Biosphere Environmental Education

What better place to sharpen one’s leadership skills than amidst the harsh landscape of Antarctica. The frozen continent is filled with stories of leadership from the early 20th century explorers and their race to be the first to set foot on the South Pole. For 76 of us from around the world - all women with science backgrounds - Antarctica was the backdrop for our own explorations into leadership.

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Agriculture & Food

Thermal imaging: Effective for diagnosing our four-legged friends

Molly McCullough

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Horses, like humans, are susceptible to all sorts of health concerns. Vets use diagnostic tools and tests – which range from incredibly simple to exceptionally high tech – to try to determine exactly what’s wrong.

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Hudson Strait Expedition Personnel of Base "C" - October 1927

Aviation & Space

The Hudson Strait Expedition: Looking beyond the prism of provenance

In honour of Archives Awareness Week (April 2-8), Ingenium is highlighting a few gems taken from our digital collection. In archives and museums, history is often told through the prism of provenance. This could mean that the history of the artifact is told from the point of view of the manufacturer that made the object, or by the company that used the object. Similarly in archives, we most often present records from the point of view of their creator or the last person to use them before they

Two young evacuee children from Great Britain, standing at Bonaventure Station, Montreal, Quebec. August 1941.

Social Science & Culture

Digital Archives: Canada's Guest Children during the Second World War

Kristy von Moos

In honour of Archives Awareness Week (April 2-8), Ingenium is highlighting a few gems taken from our digital collection. This text has been adapted from the Picturing the Past website, developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2006. As early as 1933, with Hitler’s rise to power, the British government began to plan for war with Germany. Many Britons were concerned, not only with the bombing of cities, but with the threat of military invasion and occupation by the German army. The

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the entire group of attendees gathered together for a picture

Social Science & Culture

Seeking equality: Women in Planetary Science and Exploration Conference

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Imagine standing up in front of a room full of people and openly discussing feelings of vulnerability, fear, anger and pain. In my view, that’s an incredible act of bravery - and I was honoured to hear some of those brave personal accounts from the participants at the Women in Planetary Science and Exploration Conference (WPSE2018), which took place Feb 17-18, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. When it comes to the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), women, people of colour, the

The Death of Stars

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The Mystery Ship, a most remarkable sandwich shop near the airfield located near Bradenton, Florida, circa 1935. Anon., “Uit de Pers.” Het Vliegveld, 9 October 1935, 7.

Aviation & Space

The costliest sandwich shop on planet Earth, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, gentle reader and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space. Yours truly is celebrating, or not, a birthday this month. Given this event of galactic proportion, I decided to abandon my usual anniversarial approach, if there is such an expression, for this month only of course, in order to pick a topic that tickled my funny bone. The photo above caught my attention a few years ago. I actually found it in two separate magazines, namely the June 1935 issue of the British

Emergency war mining project, Bathurst, New Brunswick, 1943

Social Science & Culture

Digital Archives: The iron ore crisis in Bathurst, New Brunswick

Kristy von Moos

In honour of Archives Awareness Week (April 2-8), Ingenium is highlighting a few gems taken from our digital collectio n . The captions displayed here are the original text. During the Second World War, iron was a vital commodity for ship building, as well as rails, guns, and munitions manufacturing. Raw ore was shipped from Little Bell Island, Newfoundland, among other mines, to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where it was made into steel. In September 1942, two ships waiting to be filled with ore were

Screen capture of the Digital Archives welcome page.

Ingenium’s Digital Archives opens museum vaults to the curious

Researchers, creators, and digital citizens rejoice – the vaults have been opened! Thanks to a new Digital Archives portal from Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, Canadians now have unprecedented access to the archives of three national museums. This means a whole new level of access to digital copies of holdings – and a look at naked catalogue records – from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology

Earth & Environment

Google Hangouts with Women in Energy

Let's Talk Energy

For Talk Energy Week 2018, In partnership with Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants, Let's Talk Energy hosted a series of energy themed Google Hangouts featuring women with various careers in the energy sector. Classrooms from throughout Canada and the U.S tuned in live and were able to interact and ask questions to the speakers, exploring energy topics from renewable energy to oil and gas, and everything in between. Click the link to see stories, videos, and pictures from the amazing week of

An artist's impression of comets orbiting another star

Aviation & Space

A Cometary Tale

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

In the latest episode of The Element, Science Advisor Jesse Rogerson explains how astronomers have found exocomets.

The first Bell Aerospace Model 7380 Voyageur, Grand Bend, Ontario, December 1971. Michael L. Yaffe, “Air Cushion Cargo Craft Tested in Canada.” Aviation Week and Space Technology, 20 December 1971, 58.

Aviation & Space

A Puffalo! A Puffalo! My kingdom for a Puffalo!, Part 3

Rénald Fortier

Yours truly was so fascinated by the story of the Air Cushion Landing System that I decided to dig further still. Thus, let it be known throughout the land that, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Aerosystems Company, a subsidiary of Bell Aerospace Corporation later known as the Bell Aerospace Company Division of Textron Incorporated, was the most experienced manufacturer of air cushion vehicles / hovercrafts in North America. The American company, for example, held the license for the